Algerian Singer Warda performs during the a concert on

Algerian Singer Warda performs during the a concert on August 03, 2008 in Algiers, Algeria. The pop singer, who has a home in Egypt since 1960, was born near Paris in 1940 to an Algerian father and a Lebanese mother. She was married to one of Egypt's most prominent composers, the late Baligh Hamdi, in the 1970s and her popularity went beyond the borders of Egypt and Algeria to reaching far into the Arab world.
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